Biography
Oran Doyle is professor in law at Trinity College Dublin. He also holds a dual appointment as a research professor at the Academia Sinica in Taipei. He has held visiting positions at Bocconi University Milan, Keio University Tokyo and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
Prof Doyle is an expert in comparative constitutional law, with a particular focus on the issues of constitutional amendment, territory and Irish unification. He is the author of 'The Irish Constitution: A Contextual Analysis' (Clarus, 2018) and (with Tom Hickey) 'Constitutional Law: Text, Cases and Materials' (Hart, 2019). He co-edited with Aileen McHarg and Jo Murkens 'The Brexit Challenge for Ireland and the United Kingdom: Constitutions under Pressure' (2021). He has recently published in Global Constitutionalism, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, the European Constitutional Law Review, and the German Law Journal.
Prof Doyle is currently the PI for NSLMap, a New Foundations research project funded by the Irish Research Council and the Shared Island Initiative that maps the convergence and divergence of laws on either side of the Irish border.
Currently supervising Alex Layden's work on informal constitutional change, and Juan Diego Galaz's work on constitutional rights of resistance and deliberation in Latin America, Prof Doyle welcomes applications for supervision from students broadly in the area of constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law.
Prof Doyle is the co-chair of the British-Irish Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) and co-convenor of the International Association of Constitutional Law research group on public law responses to public health emergencies. He was director of the COVID-19 Law and Human Rights Observatory.
The recipient of a Provost's Teaching Award, Prof Doyle has lectured constitutional law 1 and jurisprudence to undergraduate students, and comparative constitutional law and theory to postgraduate students. He has also led final year research project groups on democratic decay, emergencies, and constitutional change.
Prof Doyle is a regular contributor to public debates on issues of constitutional law in Ireland. He has published articles in the Irish Times on both the Children's Rights Referendum and the Marriage Equality Referendum. In 2016-17, he was a constitutional law advisor to the Citizens' Assembly considering the pro-life provision in the Irish Constitution. He was a member of the Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland and in February 2020, he convened a blog symposium on the IACL/IADC blog addressing the constitutional dimensions of Irish unification.
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Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Religion and Law in Ireland and Northern Ireland in, editor(s)Andrew Holmes and Gladys Ganiel , Oxford Handbook of Religion in Modern Ireland (FORTHCOMING), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, [Christopher McCrudden, Oran Doyle, and David Kenny]
Oran Doyle and Rachael Walsh, Assessing the Influence and Legitimacy of Citizen Deliberation on Abortion: A Reply to Eoin Carolan and Seana Glennon, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2023
Irish Unification: Constitutional Modalities and Adaptations in, editor(s)Paul Carmichael and Gisela Holfter , Unions, Break-ups and Special Relationships - Aspects of the Irish-German-UK Relationships, Limerick, Centre for Irish German Studies, 2022, [Oran Doyle]
Oran Doyle and Rachael Walsh, Constitutional Amendment and Public Will Formation: Deliberative Mini-Publics as a Tool for Consensus Democracy, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 20, 2022, p398 - 427
Ireland: Developments and Debates in, editor(s)Federico Fabbrini , The Law & Politics of Brexit Volume IV: The Protocol on Ireland / Northern Ireland, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, [Oran Doyle]
Oran Doyle, Leaving the Union: Constitutionalising Secession Rights in the United Kingdom, Federalismi.it, 10, 2022, p222 - 240
Oran Doyle, David Kenny, Christopher McCrudden, The Franchise in Irish Unification Referendums, Irish Studies in International Affairs, 32, (2), 2021, p182 - 213
The Constitutional Politics of a United Ireland in, editor(s)Oran Doyle, Aileen McHarg, Jo Murkins , Constitutions Under Pressure: The Brexit Challenge for Ireland and the UK, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp129 - 152, [Oran Doyle, David Kenny, Christopher McCrudden]
Alan Renwick, Oran Doyle, John Garry, Paul Gillespie, Cathy Gormley-Heenan, Katy Hayward, Robert Hazell, David Kenny, Christopher McCrudden, Brendan O'Leary, Etain Tannam, Alan Whysall , Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland: Final Report, Constitution Unit, University College London, May, 2021, p1 - 259
The Constitutional Tensions of Brexit in, editor(s)Oran Doyle, Aileen McHarg and Jo Murkens , The Brexit Challenge for Ireland and the United Kingdom: Constitutions under Pressure, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp1 - 18, [Oran Doyle, Aileen McHarg and Jo Murkens]
Oran Doyle, Aileen McHarg, Jo Murkens, The Brexit Challenge for Ireland and the United Kingdom: Constitutions under Pressure, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 1 - 338pp
Deliberative Mini-Publics as a Response to Populist Democratic Backsliding in, editor(s)Maria Cahill, Colm O'Cinneide, Seán Ó Conaill and Conor O'Mahony , Constitutional Change and Popular Sovereignty: Populism, Politics and the Law in Ireland , London, Routledge, 2021, pp224 - 243, [Oran Doyle and Rachael Walsh]
Oran Doyle and Rachael Walsh, Deliberation in Constitutional Amendment: Reappraising Ireland's Deliberative Mini-Publics, European Constitutional Law Review, 16, (3), 2020, p440 - 465
Order from Chaos? Typologies and Models of Constitutional Change in, editor(s)Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou , Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Change, Abingdon on Thames, Routledge, 2020, pp45 - 60, [Oran Doyle]
Oran Doyle, Minority Rights and Democratic Consensus: The Irish Same-Sex Marriage Referendum, National Taiwan University Law Review, 15, (1), 2020, p21 - 48
The Use of Foreign Law in Irish Constitutional Adjudication in, editor(s)Giuseppe Ferrari , Judicial Cosmopolitanism: The Use of Foreign Law in Contemporary Constitutional Systems, Brill, 2019, pp69 - 93, [Oran Doyle and Tom Hickey]
Oran Doyle, Clearing the Legal Decks for the Abortion Referendum: The Supreme Court, Constitutional Precedent and Legal Certainty, Irish Supreme Court Review, 1, 2019, p223 - 241
Philosophical Foundations of Natural Rights, Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum, Max Planck Encylopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, Heidelberg, Oxford University Press, 2019, [Oran Doyle and John Martin Gillroy]
Oran Doyle, Populist Constitutionalism and Constituent Power, German Law Journal, 20, (2), 2019, p161 - 180
Unearthing the 'Constitutional' in Quasi-Constitutionality in, editor(s)Richard Albert and Joel Colon Rios , Quasi-Constitutionality and Constitutional Statutes: Forms, Functions and Applications , Routledge, 2019, pp89 - 93, [Oran Doyle]
Oran Doyle, Erik Longo, Andrea Pin, Populism: A Health Check for Constitutional Democracy, German Law Journal, 20, (3), 2019, p401 - 407
Oran Doyle and Rachael Walsh, Participatory Democracy in Ireland: Citizens' Assemblies, Studi Senesi, 131, 2019, p485 - 496
Oran Doyle, The Constitution of Ireland: A Contextual Analysis, 1st, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2018, 0 - 230pp
Interpretation: The Unrealizable Ideal of judicial Constraint in, editor(s)Eoin Carolan , Judicial Power in Ireland, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2018, pp110 - 125, [Oran Doyle]
Oran Doyle, The Silent Constitution of Territory, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 17, 2018, p887 - 903
Constitutional Change and Interest Group Politics: Ireland's Children's Rights Amendment in, editor(s)Richard Albert, Xenophon Contiades, Alkmene Fotiadou , The Foundations and Tradition of Constitutional Amendment, Hart Publishing, 2017, pp199 - 218, [Oran Doyle and David Kenny]
Administrative Action, the Rule of Law and Unconstitutional Vagueness in, editor(s)Laura Cahillane, Tom Hickey and James Gallen , Judges, Politics and the Irish Constitution, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2017, pp237 - 251, [Oran Doyle]
Oran Doyle, Informal Constitutional Change, Buffalo Law Review, 65, (5), 2017, p101 - 118
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Change in Ireland: Political History and Balance of Power, Dublin University Law Journal, 42(2), 2017, p3 - 18
Constraints on Constitutional Amendment Powers in, editor(s)Richard Albert, Xenephon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou, , The Foundations and Traditions of Constitutional Amendment, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2017, pp73 - 95, [Oran Doyle]
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Transitions, Abusive Constitutionalism and Conventional Constraint, National Journal of Constitutional Law, 35, 2017, p67 - 90
Oran Doyle, Foreign Law, Constitutional Cases and Theoretical Authority, Global Constitutionalism, 5, 2016, p85 - 108
Oran Doyle, Conventional Constitutional Law, Dublin University Law Journal, 38, 2015, p311 - 330
Oran Doyle, The Dynamics of Constitutional Change, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 102, (2), 2013
Dublin University Law Journal, 36, (2013), 1 - 403p, Des Ryan and Oran Doyle, [eds.]
Dublin University Law Journal, 35, (2012), 1 - 355p, Des Ryan and Oran Doyle, [eds.]
Oran Doyle, Judicial Scrutiny of Legislative Classification, Irish Jurist, 47, (1), 2012, p175 - 184
Oran Doyle, The Legitimate Authority of the Living Law, Jurisprudence, 3, (1), 2012, p113 - 133
Dublin University Law Journal: A Festchrift for the Honorable Justice Ronan Keane, 33, (2011), 1 - 428p, Des Ryan and Oran Doyle, [eds.]
Oran Doyle, Law and Justice in Community: the Significance of the Living Law, Nordicum-Mediterraneum: Icelandic E-Journal of Nordic and Mediterranean Studies, 6, (2), 2011, p19
Dublin University Law Journal, 34, (2011), 1 - 280p, Des Ryan and Oran Doyle, [eds.]
Oran Doyle, Elusive Quarries: A Failure of Regulation, Dublin University Law Journal, 34, 2011, p180 - 207
Oran Doyle, Desmond Ryan, Judicial Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003: Reflections and Analysis, Dublin University Law Journal, 33, 2011, p369 - 392
Sisterly Love: the Importance of Explicitly Assumed Commitment in the Legal Recognition of Personal Relationships in, editor(s)Lynn Wardle, Scott Fitzgibbon, A Scott Loveless , The Jurisprudence of Marriage and Other Intimate Relationships, USA, WS Hein & Co, 2010, pp329 - 351, [Oran Doyle]
Oran Doyle, Family Autonomy and Children's Best Interests: Ireland, Bentham and the Natural Law, International Journal of the Jurisprudence of the Family, 1, 2010, p55 - 76
Oran Doyle, Legal Positivism, Natural Law and the Constitution, Dublin University Law Journal, 31, (1), 2009, p206 - 227
Doyle, Oran and Carolan, Eoin, The Irish Constitution: Governance and Values, Dublin, Thomson Roundhall , 2008, x-xlvi, 1-530pp
"Article 44: Privileging the Rights of the Faithful" in, editor(s)Eoin Carolan and Oran Doyle , The Irish Constitution: Governance and Values, Dublin, Round Hall Thomson, 2008, [Oran Doyle]
Doyle, Oran and Binchy, William, eds, Committed Relationships and the Law, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, 272pp
Oran Doyle, Direct Discrimination, Indirect Discrimination and Autonomy, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 27, 2007, p537 - 553
Moral Argument and the Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships in, editor(s)Oran Doyle and William Binchy , Committed Relationships and the Law, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, [Oran Doyle]
Oran Doyle, The Constitution at 70, Doctrine and Life, 57, 2007
The Separation of Powers and Constitutional Egalitarianism after the Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill Reference in, editor(s)Eoin O'Dell , Older People in Modern Ireland: Essays on Law and Policy, Dublin, First Law, 2006, pp393 - 426, [Oran Doyle and Gerry Whyte]
Oran Doyle, The European Communities (Natural Habitats) (Amendment) Regulations 2005, Dublin University Law Journal, 28, 2006
Dublin University Law Journal, Dublin, Clarus Press, [eds.], 2004-2017
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Equality Law, Dublin, Thomson Roundhall, 2004
Oran Doyle, Legal Validity - Reflections on the Constitution, Dublin University Law Journal, 25, 2003
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Oran Doyle, David Kenny, Christopher McCrudden, Fionnula Ní Aoláin, Legal Convergence and Divergence on the Island of Ireland: Report of the North-South Legal Mapping Projectto the Shared Island Unit, Oxford, Irish Research Council/Shared Island Unite, September, 2022, p1 - 19
Ideological Commitments and Constitutional Projects of Cross-Border Parties in the Irish Context, Alessandro Torre, Springer Encyclopedia of Contemporary Constitutionalism , Springer, 2022, [Oran Doyle]
Conor Casey, Oran Doyle, David Kenny, Donna Lyons, Ireland's Emergency Powers During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Dublin, Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission , February, 2021, p1 - 104
Oran Doyle and Tom Hickey, Constitutional Law: Text, Cases and Materials, 2nd, Dublin, Clarus Press, 2019, 1 - 650pp
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Beginnings, Annual Conference of the International Society of Public Law, Hong Kong, 26 June, 2018
Oran Doyle, The Constitutional Implications of Brexit, UK Italian Constitutional Law Conversation, London, 7 June, 2018, UK Constitutional Law Association and Italian Devolution Club
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Beginnings: Taiwan and Ireland, World Congress of Taiwan Studies, Taipei, 7 September, 2018, Academia Sinica Taipei
Oran Doyle, Populism and Democratic Theory, Congress of International Academy of Comparative Law, Fukuoka, 25 July, 2018, International Academy of Comparative Law
Oran Doyle, Approaches to Comparative Constitutional Law, Seminar on Comparative Constitutional Law, Hiroshima, 27 July, 2018, Law Faculty University of Hiroshima
Oran Doyle, Andrea Mulligan and Mary Rogan, Graduate Attributes, Curriculum Reform, and Pedagogical Innovation, LERU Law Schools Conference - The Future of Legal Pedagogy, Lund, 14 November 2018, 2018
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Change and Intergenerational Disagreement, Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Law Teachers, Athlone, 25 November, 2018
Oran Doyle, アイルランドの憲法変動, 法学セミナー, 467, 2018, p46 - 54
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Change in Ireland, Faculty Workshop, Tokyo, 10 July , 2018, Keio University Law School
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2015, Dublin, Round Hall, 2017, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman]
Oran Doyle, It's Bad to Talk: Judicial Dialogue and Foreign Law, Annual Conference of the International Society of Public Law, Copenhagen, 2017
Oran Doyle, Let's Not Play Peekaboo with Constituent Power, Popular Will, Electoral Democracy and the Courts, Padova, 17 November, 2017
Oran Doyle, The Supreme Court, Review of The Supreme Court of Ireland, by Ruadhán Mac Cormaic , Studies: An Irish Quarterly, 2017
Oran Doyle, The Constitution of Territory, Borders, Fences and Firewalls, Max Planck Institute Gottingen, 2017
Ireland in, editor(s)Detlef Merten and Hans-Jurgen Papier , Handbuch der Grundrechte in Deutschland und Europa, Heidelberg, CF Muller GmbH, 2016, [Oran Doyle]
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2014, Dublin, Round Hall, 2015, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman]
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2013, Dublin, Round Hall, 2014, pp110 - 207, [Oran Doyle]
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2012, Dublin, Round Hall Press, 2013, pp117 - 202, [Oran Doyle]
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2011, Dublin, Round Hall Press, 2012, pp160 - 239, [Oran Doyle]
Constitutional Law in, Annual Review of Irish Law 2010, Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2011, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman]
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2009, Dublin, Thomson Roundhall, 2010, pp188 - 258, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman]
Doyle, Oran and Scannell, Yvonne, Town and County Planning and Natura 2000 in Ireland, Amenagement du Territoire Urbanisme et Reseau Natura 2000, 11, 2009, p190 - 206
Oran Doyle, The Human Personality Doctrine in Constitutional Equality Law, Irish Student Law Review, 9, 2009, p101-
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2008, Dublin, Round Hall Thomson, 2009, pp122 - 182, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman]
Oran Doyle, Constitutional Law: Text, Cases and Materials, Dublin, Clarus Press, 2008
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2007, Dublin, Round Hall Thomson, 2008, pp97 - 144, [Oran Doyle and Estelle Feldman]
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne and William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2005, Dublin, Thomson Roundhall, 2006, pp179 - 241, [Oran Doyle;Estelle Feldman]
Property Rights and Natura 2000 in Ireland in, editor(s)Michel Paques , Natura 2000 and Property Rights, Brussels, Bruylant, 2005, pp139 - 152, [Oran Doyle]
Oran Doyle and Alan Keating, Discriminatory Planning Conditions - the Case for Reform, Law Society of Ireland, 2005
Constitutional Law in, editor(s)Raymond Byrne, William Binchy , Annual Review of Irish Law 2004, Dublin, Roundhall, 2005, pp163 - 212, [Oran Doyle, Estelle Feldman]
Rapport National: Ireland in, editor(s)Jessica Makowiak , La Mise en Place du Reseau Natura 2000, Limoges, Pulim, 2005, pp213 - 233, [Oran Doyle]
Oran Doyle, The Duration of Primary Education, Irish Student Law Review, 10, 2002, p222-
Doyle O., Scannell, Doyle and Clarke, The Habitats Directive in Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, Centre for Environmental Law and Policy, 1999
Oran Doyle, Façade Retention: Standing of Incorporated Persons to Challenge Planning Permissions, Trinity College Law Review, 2, 1999, p106-
Oran Doyle, Men of Straw? Change to the Rules of Locus Standi: An Unsuspected Side Effect of the McKenna and Hanafin Decisions, Trinity College Law Review, 1, 1998, p37-
Research Expertise
Description
Prof Doyle is an expert on comparative constitutional law and theory, with a particular focus on foundational questions of constitutionalism: how are constitutions made? How do constitutions relate to a particular people and territory, particularly in contested cases of secession and territorial conflict? How are constitutions changed? In 2018, he published a monograph, 'The Constitution of Ireland: A Contextual Analysis' for Hart's series on Constitutional Systems of the World. This book provides the first analysis, richly informed by comparative study, of how the Irish Constitution as a whole operates in practice. Prof Doyle is currently collaborating with Prof Rachael Walsh on a number of papers related to Ireland's experiment with citizens' assemblies and how these may inform new approaches to constitutional amendment. In 'Deliberation in Constitutional Amendment: Reappraising Ireland's Deliberative Mini-Publics' (European Constitutional Law Review, 2020), they provide the first analysis of all recommendations for constitutional amendment made by Ireland's mini-publics and explore why some gained political traction while most did not. In 'Deliberative Mini-Publics as a Response to Populist Democratic Backsliding' (Constitutional Change and Popular Sovereignty: Populism, Politics and the Law in Ireland, Routledge, 2021), they interrogate suggestions that deliberative mini-publics could help stem democratic backsliding. In 'Constitutional Amendment and Public Will Formation: Deliberative Mini-Publics as a Tool for Consensus Democracy' (International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2022), they situate deliberative mini-publics within a theory of constitutional amendment and explore their potential and problems through an analysis of Ireland's Citizens' Assembly's recommendations on abortion. Developing from this work, Prof Doyle is currently preparing a monograph on constitutional amendment. This work will theorise the distinctive democratic value of constitutional amendment and deploy that theory to reassess key debates in the field: from the unconstitutional constitutional amendment doctrine to informal constitutional amendment.Projects
- Title
- Measures on Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
- Summary
- Dr Doyle prepared the Irish report for a European Union project on the extent to which the laws of each Member State complied with Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention.
- Funding Agency
- European Commission
- Date From
- 01/01/2007
- Date To
- 12/07/2007
Recognition
Representations
Co-convenor of the International Association of Constitutional Law research group on public law responses to public health emergencies
Constitutional Law Advisor to Ireland's Citizens' Assembly
Co-Chair of the British-Irish Chapter of the International Society of Public Law
Member of the International Society of Public Law Working Group on New Chapters
Guest Editor special volume of the German Law Journal on Populism and Constitutionalism
Global Associate Professor, Keio University, Tokyo
Visiting Research Fellow, Bocconi University Milan
Visiting research fellow at the Institutuum Jurisprudentiae of the Academia Sinica in Taipei.
Member of the editorial board of the Dublin University Law Journal.
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Constitutional Studies.
External Examiner, NUI Galway
External Examiner, Honorable Society of King's Inns
External Examiner, Griffith College Dublin
Awards and Honours
Elected to Fellowship of the College
Provost's Teaching Award
Brookes Scholar, the Honourable Society of King's Inns
Awarded Gold Medal in LLB Degree
Scholar of Trinity College Dublin
Memberships
Irish Jurisprudence Society
International Society of Public Law
Law and Society Association